Birds Species

30/04/2024

Spread your wings and let your love for birds soar! 🐦💕 Embrace the beauty of flight and the gentle coos of our feathered friends.

20/02/2024

The creature might have lacked the ability to fly and it also doesn't seem to conform to the accepted bird-evolution story. Fuijianvenator prodigiosus existed in China about 148-150 million years ago. A fossil of a bird-like dinosaur has been discovered in China that has surprised experts.

This Bird Was A Dinosaur In The Past

For decades, dinosaurs were thought to be gigantic, slow-moving, cold-blooded reptiles. The movie Jurassic Park however popularized the idea of dinosaurs as quick and so smart Birds Species.

30/11/2023

Broiler chicks
Breed broiler is any chicken that is bred and raised specifically for meat production. Most commercial broilers reach slaughter weight between four and six weeks of age, although slower growing breeds reach slaughter weight at approximately 14 weeks of age. Typical broilers have white feathers and yellowish skin. Wikipedia
Breeds: Hubbard chicken
Use: Meat/feathers
Distribution: World-wide
Egg color: white/light brown
Skin color: Yellow, brown, black or mixed

13/11/2023

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13/11/2023

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13/11/2023

Helmeted hornbill
About
The helmeted hornbill is a very large bird in the hornbill family. It is found on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand and Myanmar. The casque accounts for some 11% of its 3 kg weight. Unlike any other hornbill, the casque is almost solid, and is used in head-to-head combat among males. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Rhinoplax vigil
Domain: Eukaryota
Family: Bucerotidae
Order: Bucerotiformes

13/11/2023

Vulturine Guineafowl
With its distinctive coloring and blood-red eyes, the Vulturine Guineafowl looks like an intimidating creature.

The Vulturine Guineafowl is also known as the "royal guineafowl" and follows a diet that consists of seeds, rodents, small reptiles, insects, plus vegetation and fruits on occasion.

This bird is native to east tropical African countries like Ethiopia and Kenya and thrives in dry desert conditions. The species is a fast runner and has the ability to fly, although it rarely does, save for when it needs to reach its roosting perch.

Male Vulturine Guineafowl usually maintain an aggressive posture and stance, while females tend to display more submissive body language.

13/11/2023

Tufted Puffin
The Tufted Puffin is a surface-diving seabird acclimated to the colder waters of the north Pacific. It's the largest of all the Puffin species and breeds between northwestern Alaska down through central California.

The Tufted Puffin's golden plumes only appear during mating season. When this species is ready for nesting, they burrow into the edges of cliffs.

Tufted Puffins are skilled hunters who are able to catch and hold up to 20 fish in their mouths at a time in order to bring food back for the chicks. When Tufted Puffins mature and reach adulthood, they eat their fish underwater.

07/11/2023

DO YOU KNOW?
How many species of birds are?
List of birds - Wikipedia
10,000 species
In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that.

What is the scientific name for a bird?
Aves
Birds / Scientific name
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Aves (Class) Birds are warm-blooded animals characterized by toothless beaks, hard-shelled eggs and feathers. The evolution of birds can be traced back to the dinosaurs, especially a group of dinosaurs called the theropods – which were bipedal.


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07/11/2023

Lilac-breasted roller
The lilac-breasted roller is an African bird of the roller family, Coraciidae. It is widely distributed in Southern and Eastern Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula. It prefers open woodland and savanna, and it is for the most part absent from treeless places. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Coracias caudatus
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable) Encyclopedia of Life
Mass: 110 g (Adult) Encyclopedia of Life
Domain: Eukaryota
Family: Coraciidae
Kingdom: Animalia
Order: Coraciiformes
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14/03/2022

Diamond dove
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The diamond dove is a resident bird in Australia. The dove predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature, being Central, West and Northern Australia. They are one of Australia's smallest pigeons along with the peaceful dove

Taxonomy and etymology
English ornithologist John Latham first described the diamond dove in 1801.[2] The common name "diamond" is a reference to the white speckles on its wings.[2]

Description
They are small pigeons with a length of 19 to 21 centimeters or 9 to 11 inches.[3] Regardless of s*x, they have white spots and black edges on their wings, red eyes and orange eye-rings. The s*xes look similar except the female's eye ring is less vivid and has more of a brown colour to the plumage. The male's head, neck, and breast are light blue-grey. The bill is a dark grey colour. The abdomen is a creamy colour while the back and tail is a brown-grey colour. The legs and feet are pink. The juveniles have a light grey bill; the iris and eye ring is fawn in colour; the feet and legs are grey; the breast is grey and does not possess any white spots on their wings.[citation needed]

24/05/2021

Red-crested turaco
Birds
The red-crested turaco is a turaco, a group of African Otidimorphae birds. It is a frugivorous bird endemic to western Angola. Its call sounds somewhat like a jungle monkey. Scientific name: Tauraco erythrolophus
Higher classification: Tauraco
Order: Turaco
Family: Musophagidae
Phylum: Chordata
Rank: Species

28/05/2020

27/12/2019

Collared aracari
Bird
DescriptionThe collared aracari or collared araçari is a toucan, a near-passerine bird. It breeds from southern Mexico to Panama; also Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Costa Rica. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Pteroglossus torquatus
Mass: 210 g Encyclopedia of Life
Length: 41 cm Encyclopedia of Life

27/12/2019

Red-capped manakin
Bird
DescriptionThe red-capped manakin is a species of bird in the Pipridae family. It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Ceratopipra mentalis
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Pipra

17/12/2019

Atlantic puffin
The Atlantic puffin, also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin, are found in the northeastern Pacific. Wikipedia
Mass: 490 g Encyclopedia of Life
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Scientific name: Fratercula arctica
Conservation status: Vulnerable (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Family: Alcidae

16/12/2019

Bali myna (Leucopsar)
The Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi), also known as Rothschild's mynah, Bali starling, or Bali mynah, locally known as jalak Bali, is a medium-sized (up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) long), stocky myna, almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail. The bird has blue bare skin around the eyes, greyish legs and a yellow bill. Both s*xes are similar. It is critically endangered and fewer than 100 adults are assumed to currently exist in the wild.
lifespan 7.4 years
Kingdom: Animal
Scientific name: Leucopsar rothschildi
Phylum: Chordata
Higher classification: Leucopsar
Order: Passerine
Rank: Species

10/12/2019

Victoria Crowned Pigeon
The Victoria crowned pigeon is a large, bluish-grey pigeon with elegant blue lace-like crests, maroon breast, and red irises. It is part of a genus of four unique, very large, ground-dwelling pigeons native to the New Guinea region. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Goura victoria
Conservation status: Near Threatened (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Order: Columbiformes
Phylum: Chordata
Higher classification: Crowned pigeon
Rank: Species

09/12/2019

Paradise flycatcher
The Asian paradise flycatcher is a medium-sized passerine bird native to Asia, where it is widely distributed. As the global population is considered stable, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Myanmar. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Terpsiphone paradisi
Mass: 19 g Encyclopedia of Life
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable) Encyclopedia of Life
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Paradise flycatcher
Family: Monarchidae

06/12/2019

Western tragopan
The western tragopan or western horned tragopan is a medium-sized brightly plumed pheasant found along the Himalayas from north-eastern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan in the west to Uttarakhand within India to the east. The species is highly endangered and globally threatened. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Tragopan melanocephalus
Conservation status: Vulnerable (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Phylum: Chordata
Higher classification: Tragopan
Order: Landfowl
Rank: Species

30/11/2019

Grey Parrot
The grey parrot, also known as the Congo grey parrot, Congo African grey parrot or African grey parrot, is an Old World parrot in the family Psittacidae. The Timneh parrot was earlier treated as a subspecies but has since been elevated to a full species. Wikipedia
Lifespan: 40 – 60 years (In captivity)
Mass: 410 g
Family: Psittacidae
Order: Psittaciformes
Scientific name: Psittacus erithacus
Kingdom: Animalia

28/11/2019

Peacocks. Peacocks are large, colorful pheasants (typically blue and green) known for their iridescent tails. These tail feathers, or coverts, spread out in a distinctive train that is more than 60 percent of the bird's total body length and boast colorful "eye" markings of blue, gold, red, and other hues.

27/11/2019

Mountain bluebird
The mountain bluebird is a medium-sized bird weighing about 30 g with a length from 16–20 cm. They have light underbellies and black eyes. Adult males have thin bills and are bright turquoise-blue and somewhat lighter underneath. Adult females have duller blue wings and tail, grey breast, grey crown, throat and back. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Sialia currucoides
Mass: 30 g Encyclopedia of Life
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Bluebirds
Symbol of: Idaho, Nevada

27/11/2019

Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus) is among the most critically endangered large migratory birds in the world. Approximately 275 of the elegant white species exist in the wild with fewer than 40 in captivity. Only 36 birds are believed to fly over Pakistan.
The Siberian crane, also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Grus leucogeranus
Kingdom: Animalia
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Grus
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes

25/11/2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Pakistan

This is a list of the bird species recorded in Pakistan. The avifauna of Pakistan includes a total of 766 species. The chukar (Alectoris chukar) is the official national bird of Pakistan, and the shaheen falcon is the symbolic icon of the Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Avicultural Foundation.

This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families, and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) generally follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2019 edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Accidental species are included in the total species count for Pakistan.

The following tags have been used to highlight several categories. The commonly occurring native species do not fall into any of these categories.

(A) Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Pakistan
(Ex) Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in Pakistan but exists in other places

21/11/2019

Golden pheasant
he golden pheasant, also known as the Chinese pheasant, and rainbow pheasant, is a gamebird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos, "with golden crest", and pictus is Latin for "painted" from pingere, "to paint".
Scientific name: Chrysolophus pictus
Mass: 550 g Encyclopedia of Life
Clutch size: 8 – 12
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Length: Male: 90 – 100 cm (Adult), Female: 60 – 80 cm (Adult)
Did you know: The Golden Pheasant or Chinese pheasant "Chrysolophus pictus" is native to forests in mountainous areas of western China.

21/11/2019

Mandarin duck
The mandarin duck is a perching duck species native to East Asia. It is medium-sized, at 41–49 cm long with a 65–75 cm wingspan. It is closely related to the North American wood duck, the only other member of the genus Aix.
Mass: 430 – 690 g Encyclopedia of Life
Scientific name: Aix galericulata
Kingdom: Animalia
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Higher classification: Wood ducks
Did you know: Mandarin duck is an omnivore (eats both plant- and animal-based food) and its diet depends on the season

21/11/2019

Beautiful birds in Pakistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Pakistan

Pheasants, grouse, and allies
Indian peafowl, Pavo cristatus.
See-see partridge, Ammoperdix griseogularis.
Common quail, Coturnix coturnix.
Rain quail, Coturnix coromandelica.
Chukar, Alectoris chukar is the National bird of Pakistan.
Himalayan snowcock, Tetraogallus himalayensis.
Jungle bush-quail, Perdicula asiatica.